Royal Academy Ghent / De Film van het Boek van de Meester van het Geheime Huis (The Film of the Book of the Master of the Secret House) / documentary essay / digital video / canonicalia / 2011
Duration: 14m51s
Language: Dutch
A dysfunctional family documents their discovery of an ancient Egyptian mummy in their back yard. This trashy amateur horror home movie intercuts with an educational documentary about mummification. As the lines between genres begin to blur, we’re left with questions about memory and (im)mortality. What role does cinema itself play in all this? Animation as reanimation.
A guide in Egypt
The mummy lives!
Fading memories of the Nile
The embalmer’s powerpoint
Wrapping it all in clingfilm
Those were some nice screenshots. Too bad the movie isn’t available to watch online… Or is it? Only the true internet archaeologist can find out. ENTER THE TOMB!
